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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 10/13/2005 : 12:14:15
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9686843/
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WASHINGTON - A one-celled creature found on a sandy beach may be in the process of kidnapping and incorporating an even tinier plant to use as a living energy source, Japanese researchers reported Thursday.
They said the newly discovered organism seems to be in the process of endosymbiosis — in which one creature incorporates another, creating a new form of life.
Scientists believe this is how many modern plants and animals evolved. They believe the chloroplasts, the green solar-power factories inside plants, were originally separate organisms. Similarly, they believe components of the cells that make up all animals were originally captured microbes
What did one microbe say to the other microbe? Lets Split!
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
2998 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2005 : 12:23:31 [Permalink]
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| God did it. God is doing it. |
by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2005 : 12:31:11 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by pleco
God did it. God is doing it.
And God should share. He's got the best stuff. He should stop Bogarting it.
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Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
Brother Cutlass of Reasoned Discussion |
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
Posted - 10/13/2005 : 14:40:13 [Permalink]
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| Very interesting, even if somewhat unsurprising. We would expect to find different levels of symbiosis in nature. I do, however, take offense at the implication that this should somehow eventually lead to fully fledged endosymbiosis (as in eg plants and chloroplasts). Note: I can only access Science articles that are more than one year old, so I can't say if it was the japanese scientists or the Reuters reporter implying this, unfortunately. |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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